..Here, implantable hearing aids, successfully used in cases of sensorineural hearing loss, offer a promising alternative. This article reviews the actual state of affairs of passive and active middle ear implants...

Case report of a child with otoacoustic emissions and profound hearing loss in whom otoacoustic emissions were preserved after cochlear implantation

..Cochlear implantation has been shown to be an option in affected patients. Here, we report a case of successful cochlear implantation and preserved otoacoustic emissions in a child suffering from this hearing disorder...

..Usually they appear as harmless and asymptomatic and go unnoticed by the patient. In rare cases, obstructions of the upper airway due to monstrous vallecular cysts may become life threatening...

[An accessory retropharyngeal bone as a rare cause of dysphagia]

D BeutnerUniversitäts HNO Klinik KölnHNO 54:473-4, 476. 2006

..Dysphagia due to cervical spine osteophytes, Forestier's disease or progressive ossifying fibrodysplasia is well known. This case adds an isolated retropharyngeal bone formation as a rare cause of dysphagia to the literature...

Cartilage plate tympanoplasty

Dirk BeutnerDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyOtol Neurotol 31:105-10. 2010

..The purpose of this work was to report our modified cartilage plate tympanoplasty technique ("tulip leaves") and to analyze its clinical outcome in primary and recurrent cases of chronic otitis media with and without cholesteatoma...

..The objective of this study was to investigate whether patients with a short-term and long-term disease course of sialolithiasis show differences in the clinical picture and the outcome after sialendoscopy...

..Various topics in otology cause controversy among otologists internationally. The resulting variety of diagnostic and surgical concepts reflects differences between surgical schools and the lack of structured studies in the field...

TORP-vibroplasty: a new alternative for the chronically disabled middle ear

..To report on experiences with implanting the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) coupled to the stapes head using a new Clip-Coupler or to the stapes footplate using a new OW-Coupler (CliP- or OW-Coupler Vibroplasty)...

..Most patients already have impaired vestibular function before surgery. These balance deficits did not change after CI surgery in the majority of patients but static balance might be improved by CI surgery...

Characterizing the active opening of the eustachian tube in a hypobaric/hyperbaric pressure chamber

..The aim of this study was to characterize standard values for the opening pressure (ETOP), the opening frequency (ETOF), and the opening duration (ETOD) for active tubal openings (Valsalva maneuver, swallowing) in healthy participants...

Young age is a positive prognostic factor for residual hearing preservation in conventional cochlear implantation

..Interposed cartilage and the round window coupler (RWC) increase the efficiency of cochlea stimulation with the floating mass transducer (FMT) of a single active middle ear implant (AMEI) placed against the round window membrane...

Successful OK-432 therapy for a supraclavicular lymphocele: report of a case

..e. seroma or hematoma were observed in a total of six cases (2.4 %). The here presented surgical fixation technique is a sufficient and reliable way for fixation of cochlear implants independent of the device type...

..Some patients with chronic middle ear disease and multiple failed revisions, who also need a hearing aid, may benefit from an active middle ear implant. An advantage of an active middle ear implant is that the ear canal is unoccluded...

[Indolent neck tumour. A 47 year old patient with a painless tumour in the area of the left mandibular angle]

..In equal or lower than 50 % oxygen, an irradiation interval of 5 s can be considered a comparatively safe time limit to prevent inflammation in laryngeal laser surgery. Smoke exhaustion should always be applied...

The impact of blood loss during cochlear implantation in very young children

..A number of different laser systems has been investigated for this purpose. It was our aim to study the effectiveness of a 980nm diode laser when fragmenting salivary stones in an experimental set up...

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation in squamous cell carcinoma of the maxillary sinus: a 26-year experience

..Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy followed by radical surgery is an effective treatment for patients with advanced maxillary sinus squamous cell carcinoma. In terms of treatment response cisplatin seems to be more effective than carboplatin...

..Despite peak levels of about 140 dB, the OAEs did not change significantly and the AHAAH rated nearly all sounds as harmless. It can be concluded that impulse sounds in music with high peak levels are not necessarily hazardous...

Massive macroglossia after palatoplasty: case report and review of the literature

..Here, histopathologic examination revealed a Warthin tumor of the parotid gland. This case shows that increased uptake of iodine-131 in scintigraphy and of glucose in PET can occur in benign parotid gland disease...

..Management and differential diagnoses of globus sensation are herein discussed. This case underlines the importance of tomographic imaging, even in common but persisting symptoms such as globus sensation...

..No standardized therapy for scleredema adultorum Buschke has yet been established. As in the case of our patient, a systemic cortisone therapy is normally administered combined with high-dose penicillin and physiotherapy...